Seib & Wessel: Entering the Immigration End Game

4/12/2013 12:46PM

Are we close to a historic immigration overhaul – or are the political hurdles too high? WSJ’s Sara Murray runs through the key pieces: tough border security, ID verification by businesses and a pathway to citizenship.

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the ... this I mean alot closer to a feeling there's a line of course you know the classic things are the more we know about eight weeks to come out it does look like here they can really unveiled its industrial would be historic we were talking about really tough border security measures ... in half the Swedish citizenship ... for eleven million people ... and relief robots can work visa program is to letting people in the future ... hundreds of thousands of people say you wrote the story this week that fool everybody about what tough border security measures needed in this bill is the senators who are putting together edition it um it's ... a pretty comprehensive list of Fisher's about this as associate have to tell us that your monthly hundred percent of the U S Mexican border and you have to tell us you're ... getting catching ninety percent of people interesting proxy that's the standard for tough border security for the rest of this ... yes this is can ... write as this is standard for I'm in the southern border with Mexico out stocking that mandatory e verify for every employee and ... a way to monitor them and the people who come in on visas to ensure that they actually ... think this is why this is where the devil is definitely in the details will have to see what the legislative language looks like ... make sure their team to back up these provisions in and that's how we know whether whether this is a serious plan for security or so minutes masquerading as a series win with Republicans as a public ... statement read through whom we do all that an employee have overwhelmingly shares the keeper of people are in favor of immigration firm ... definitely there is more selling the very few get some kind of like punishment if you like can extract a pound of flesh from the people in senior legal aid ... on it said I think the highest number is work if there's a plan and the people paid paid fines pay back taxes go through background check Learning glance ... there I think it's pretty clear that nobody wants to make this particularly easy for people already in the United States ... but they ... deftly Latham said he looks to start working legally in Exodus ... I guess the question is ... are they setting up such high hurdles on the border security ... that accident will never be able to comply and although they ... even if they reach some agreement now this is sitting on top of the show eleven million it currently legal people in ten of the state of limbo ... they're not the legal anymore but they're not citizens IPOs that it won't run for the fix was actor and so that's the question I mean what happens if ten years from now we have an adult these alleys measures of these people who were going to get green cards and apps increased and its really worried about what if you let these targets fall by the wayside I really having this conversation again in ten years when there are millions of woodland by the way is the history of immigration reform that we had the sensation only you and I wrote to the wire service in nineteen eighty six when it with all the throws of insolvent turns out none of it so that was not friendly but